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- ...sh;B. Carmon Hardy, ''Solemn Covenant'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 9.</small>49 KB (8,019 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...member of these bodies. This would have been impossible, since Masonry in Illinois at the time (1842) did not have the Scottish Rite at time and there is no r ...nprecedented procedure, and Grand Master Abraham Jonas (the grand lodge of Illinois grand master who raised the Prophet) was well within his rights in making J17 KB (2,868 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- Governor Ford of Illinois then asked Joseph to appear before the Carthage judge to satisfy the anti-M26 KB (4,387 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...venant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 9; an account of this encounter between Joseph and William ca ..., Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 64.</ref> At best, he is repeating Levi's early tale.)45 KB (7,191 words) - 01:16, 19 May 2024
- ...w Message'', January 17, 1844, Vol. I. No 4.—A newpaper from Warsaw, Illinois7 KB (1,105 words) - 23:42, 13 April 2024
- |L8=AGENTS FOR THE TIMES AND SEASON IN ILLINOIS. | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, APRIL, 1840.66 KB (11,467 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 15, 1841. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly, that Sidney Rigdon, George W. Robinson69 KB (12,223 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, MARCH, 1840. ...mounting to about 15,000 souls, fled into the other States, principally in Illinois, where they now reside.73 KB (12,947 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...then claim that since Joseph Smith was initiated as a Freemason in Nauvoo, Illinois shortly before he introduced the full endowment to the Saints (as opposed t2 KB (246 words) - 15:57, 13 April 2024
- ...e river on foot. The Des Moines Rapids, located between Nauvoo and Keokuk, Illinois were, according to Wikipedia, "one of two major rapids on the Mississippi R8 KB (1,321 words) - 21:57, 1 May 2024
- ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri45 KB (6,814 words) - 01:08, 31 May 2024
- ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri39 KB (5,785 words) - 15:02, 13 April 2024
- ...ear-old Joseph Smith, hiding from the law down by the Mississippi River in Illinois, confessed:8 KB (1,203 words) - 22:24, 11 May 2024
- ...Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith'', 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 141, 332.</ref> ...Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith'', 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 141, 332.</ref>23 KB (3,617 words) - 20:28, 17 May 2024
- ...h] of the Prophet Joseph Smith set their feet upon the hospitable shore of Illinois, I became acquainted with them. I frequently visited them and listened with15 KB (2,421 words) - 22:34, 20 May 2024
- *p. 34: The author claims that in Illinois Joseph "was still hunted by law officials for old offenses." *p. 38: "…Smith and fellow prisoners escaped to join their people in Illinois, where they proceeded to found a theocratic society."6 KB (984 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...aunius, ''Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), 2-3. [The balance of the ...is virtually no cultural context for understanding the Mormon conflict in Illinois. Also, they treat the Mormons as idealized figures whose motives are sacred12 KB (1,905 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- Nauvoo, Illinois, Nov. 13, 1843.12 KB (2,053 words) - 14:16, 13 April 2024
- ...idate writs from other jurisdictions was improper. Carlin, the governor of Illinois at the time, characterized it as an "extraordinary assumption of power….m ...charter was correct—that Nauvoo was subject only to the constitution of Illinois and not to its laws. The whole habeas corpus question was mooted in January10 KB (1,560 words) - 14:36, 30 April 2024
- ...aim: 79 - Presendia Buell "did not take the prophet's advice" to leave for Illinois while he was in Liberty Jail "prior to his escape from jail on April 16. N *Smith, Letter to "Brother and Sister [Newel K.] Whitney, and &c.," Nauvoo, Illinois, Aug. 18, 1842, Church Archives, Salt Lake City.50 KB (7,489 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024